Car-replacing device.



J. HOCH. CAR REPLACING DEVICE. APPLICATION man sums. 19H.

' Patented Dec. 18, 1917.

n virnn STAES JOSEIEH Home. on MILWAUKEE; wzsoonsm.

eeaeaar iacme nvzcna T 0 all whom it may concern Be it known that I; J OSEPH 'Hocrna citi zen of the United States, and resident of Milwaukee, in the county of'Milwaukeeand State of Wisconsin, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Gar-Replacing Devices; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, andexact description thereof.

My invention relates broadly to new and useful improvements-in means for returning railway cars and other rolling stock-to their tracks after they havebeen derailed; v In freight yards and at otherplaces where railway tracks terminate, it is necessary to maintain a force of-workmenwhose sole duty is to replace freight cars and other rolling stock upon the track rails afterrthey have run beyond the ends of said rails. Under present conditions itis' very dilii'cult and extremely laborious to replace such rolling stock and it is frequently necessary to se-v cure, the services of a derrick. It is therefore the-principal object of the present invention to provide a simple arrangement whereby derailed cars may be quickly,v and:

easily moved back on to the tracks ofl which they have run.

A further object i to provide a simply constructed device which can be readily formed from old, discarded track rails, and which can .be easily attached at the end of any railway track, which is not provided with the usual bumper post.

l/Vith these and other objects in view, the invention consists of certain novel features of construction, combination and arrangement of parts, which will be hereinafter more particularly described and claimed, and shown in the drawings, wherein Figure 1 represents a plan View of a pair of rails forming the end of a railway track, my invention being also shown applied thereto, and

Fig. 2 is a detail, transverse, sectional View on the line 22 of Fig. 1.

In the drawing the numerals 1 designate the ends of a pair of track rails each together form a railway track standard gage, said track being without the service of a bumper post, which is frequently provided to prevent railway rolling stock from leaving the ends of the rails. Even the strongest bumper post is hardly sufliciently rigid to prevent the derailment of cars when they are moving at an appreciable speed. And

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since; sucli-bi1-mper--posts are easily demol: ishedg' their maintenance israther; expeng 'sive.

My invention on the other? hand, is com: paratively simple and consequentlyvery; i'nexpensive, and although it; will not prevent the rollingastock from runningoff" the rails; in will permit the same to be rezidilyrepl'aced when suchderailmentroccurs; It is disposed beyond the end of'f'thetrack uponties or sleepers 2 similartothose on; which the main track-rails are mounted, asis clearly shownimFi'g. 1*}. Thedev-i'ce consists of-a metallic of appropriate length and. is-bentupon itself substantially m dway its ends, w form a substantially V sha-ped" guide rail": It; is immaterialwhat form! at bar is; used so; long as it isof suflicient height to form; a guide forthe wheels ofthe derailed cars in amanner to be hereinafter more partie ularlydescribed. It is considered, however,

that trackrail of sufficient length and bent into theproper-- shape will" act most advantageously, As shown, they Vrshaped guide, rail projects beyond" the free endsof the track rails l, the apex of said guide rail being substantially mid way the planes of the track rails. The free end portions of the guide rail are disposed substantially parallel to each other, as shown at 4:, these parts being spaced apart a distance somewhat less than the distance between the track rails 1.

It will thus be seen that the free end portions of the arms of the guide rail are parallel to each other and to the track rails, whereas the inner portions of said arms are inclined from the free end of one track rail toward the opposite track rail. The bends 5 between the two portions of each arm are disposed substantially coincident with the ends of the track rails, and adjacent these bends spaced blocks 6 are disposed between the portions 4 and the adjacent track rails to hold the latter parts in spaced relation. As shown in Fig. 2, the spacing rods 6 have their upper surface disposed below the horizontal planes of the tops of the guide and track rails, said tracks being preferably disposed below the balls or heads of said rails. The outer ends of said blocks may be inclined downwardly, if necessary, to allow the wheels of the rolling stock to more readily ride thereonto.

A retaining and strengthening rod: 7 extends through the portions 4 of the arms of the guide rail adjacent the bends 5, through the blocks 6 and the end portions of the track rails 1. This rod has its free ends threaded to receive nuts 8 and 8; as shown in F ig. 2, these nuts are adapted to engage the outer faces of the webs of the adjacent track and guide rails to clamp the same and the blocks 6 together. The free ends of the-track rails 1 are bent outwardly as at 9 to more effectively guide the Wheels of the rolling stock.

Other strengthening rods, such as the rod 10, may be used to connect the opposite arms of the guide rail when found to be necessary. Also, varlous other mlnor changes 1n the form and proport1on of the various parts v of the invention may be resorted to.

Assuming that a railway car has become derailed by running off the ends of the track rails 1 and it is necessary to quickly replace the same, said car is moved in the most convenient manner toward the end of the track. Eventually the wheels of the forward truck engage either one or the other of the inclined portions of the arms of the guide rail, whereupon the continued movement of the car will cause the same to be guided in the proper direction to permit engagement of the spacing blocks 6 by the flanges of said wheels. As the wheels ride up on to these blocks they will engage the end portions of the track rails and be disposed in operative relation therewith. Fur- "ther movement of the car in the same direc tion will cause the wheels of the rear truck to engage the guide rail and be guided in the same manner on to the track rail and thus it will be seen that under practicallj all conditions a derailed car can be readily steered on to the ends of the track rails.

I claim 1. A device of the class described, com prising, in combination, the end portions of a pair of track rails, the free ends of said portions being curved outwardl away from each other, a substantially V-s iaped guide rail, the free end portions of the guide rail being parallel to each other and to the end portions of the track rails, said parallel portions of the guide rails at their junction with the inclined portions thereof being disposed adjacent the free curved ends of the track rails, and means for connecting the parallel portions of the guiderail and the end portions of the track rails.

2. A device of the class described comprising a bar bent in substantially V-shape, the free end portion of the arms of the bar being parallel, and a bracing rod connecting the arms of the \/shaped bar.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing I have hereunto set my hand at Milwaukee, in the county of Milwaukee and State of Wisconsin.

JOSEPH HOCH.

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